Malik Alashter
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Lol, really funny man you are sooooo badMiddle fingers up for Jane's !!!
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Lol, really funny man you are sooooo badMiddle fingers up for Jane's !!!
I don't know..why don't you enlighten us?
The booster is needed to get it into the air and up to speed and altitude, it would not add range. An airlaunched version gets better mileage as it is launched at higher initial speed and altitude, where air is thinner than at ground level and resistance is less, plus just dropping it with forward speed will give it some distance on a balistic trajectory.
Indeed, ground launch requires a booster for the reasons I indicated. Nice of you to confirm and reiterate what I already had said.The air-launched ones do not have/need boosters in the first place. Soumar unlike the KH-55 needs a booster for the reasons you have mentioned, but its range is determined by the quantity or even the type of fuel it carries (most probably solid fuel like the RK-55), its weight (most probably weighs much less than the RK-55 on which it is based due to Iran's advanced carbon fiber industry) and its engine. Combining these three facts its range might equals the one of the RK-55 (SSC-X-4 'Slingshot') which is 3000 km.
The aim of the Kh-55SM design was to further extend the striking range of the basic missile, cited at 1,350 NMI (2,500 km). This was achieved by adding a pair of conformal fuselage fuel tanks, which increased launch weight to 3,750 lb (1,700 kg), but increased cruise range to 1,620 NMI (3,000 km) with a 200 kT warhead fitted.
RK55: Cited specifications are a length o 8.09 m, diameter of 0.51 m compatible with 533 mm torpedo tubes, wingspan of 3.3 m, and a launch weight of 1,700 kg. At a cruise speed of Mach 0.7 cited range is 3,000 km (1,600 NMI), with a typical altitude of ~500 ft AGL. The 140 kg warhead produced a 200 kT yield.
Дальность полета, км - Х-55СМ 3000
Дальность полета, км - Х-55 2500
Indeed, ground launch requires a booster for the reasons I indicated. Nice of you to confirm and reiterate what I already had said.
Soviet/Russian Cruise Missiles
And again repeating what I was pointing outI was completing your answer, because it was not pertinent enough. the guy talked about the range of Soumar and you have answered with the Air launched version aka KH-55. While I have compared Soumar to the RK-55 the surface to surface cruise missile. Also there is no noticeable difference in range between KH-55 (2500 km) and RK-55, actually it matches the range of KH-55SM which is 3000 km.
In brief you were wrong in assuming that the air launched version had more range.
And again repeating what I was pointing out
The booster is needed to get it into the air and up to speed and altitude, it would not add range. An airlaunched version gets better mileage as it is launched at higher initial speed and altitude, where air is thinner than at ground level and resistance is less, plus just dropping it with forward speed will give it some distance on a balistic trajectory.
@SOHEIL I don't know much, but neither do you. I look at the state of affairs of a nation and judge the words of its leaders and important members of its community based on that. When big words come out of a nation that has a failed economy, is under sanctions, it's a pariah state, is a brutal dictatorship, it has a track record of lying time after time, has never done anything important in its modern history etc... the words become meaningless. You're a jackass on the internet just like me. I may not know much about military affairs, but I compensate with common sense. You compensate with emoticons and your sense of nationalism and your jingoistic attitude.
100 years ago your ancestors were cave dwellers, now you're logging on the internet (western invention), using electricity produced by some sort of a power plant (western invention) and communicating with me in a western language.Your "common sense" is confined to worshipping the West; perceiving them as flawless and eternally superior to everybody else. In case you didn't know, the U.S. is the biggest pariah state in the world, not Iran. Dumbass....